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28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

28th September 2019
Tagged as: Discovery, Disease, Drugs, Health, Medicine, Science

On the 28^th September 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming laid for the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine when he discovered the world’s first antibiotic.

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22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison

22nd July 2019
Tagged as: cocaine, Columbia, Drugs, Escape, Pablo Escobar, Prison, Smuggling, USA

Referred to mockingly as ‘Hotel Escobar’, the prison was staffed by guards chosen by the drugs lord himself.

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28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison

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12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

28th September 1066: William of Normandy lands in England

27th October 1960: Ben E. King records Stand By Me

26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp

25th October 1415: The Battle of Agincourt is fought

24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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